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A highly conserved cysteine of neuronal calcium-sensing proteins controls cooperative binding of Ca2+ to recoverin.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 13 Dec 2013
Ranaghan Matthew J, Kumar Ramasamy P, Chakrabarti Kalyan S, Buosi Vanessa, Kern Dorothee, Oprian Daniel D
Abstract excerpt
Recoverin, a 23-kDa Ca(2+)-binding protein of the neuronal calcium sensing (NCS) family, inhibits rhodopsin kinase, a Ser/Thr kinase responsible for termination of photoactivated rhodopsin in rod photoreceptor cells. Recoverin has two functional EF hands and a myristoylated N terminus. The myristoyl chain imparts cooperativity to the Ca(2+)-binding sites through an allosteric mechanism involving a conformational...
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